Pin catch and connecting ring



Sept 15,,1$35 H; VAN PEHLT 2,054,345

PIN CATCH AND CONNECTING RING Filed June 5, 1936 Patented Sept. 15, 1936 UNITED STATES OFFICE Herbert G. Van Pelt, Chicago, 111., assignor to F. H. Noble & 00., Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application June 5, 1936, Serial No. 83,649

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a safety catch or look for ornamental pins, emblems, and the like, designed to be used in connection with a chain and guard pin for further display and ornament. Usually the principal,and ordinarily the larger,pin body displays insignia indicative of some organization, such as a school, a class, or a fraternity or sorority or the like, while the guard pin connected to it by a short ornamental chain may be a simple securing member, or may itself display some further indicia, as the year of graduation of a class, an indication of the local organization of which the principal pin is emblematical, etc. Customarily, the pin body on which the principal emblem is displayed is worn above, and frequently somewhat to one side of the point of attachment of the guard pin.

In the manufacture of pins of the class described, it is the practice to so arrange the hinged pin which is carried by the back of the principal emblem and through which the pin body is secured to the wearers clothing in such relation to the insignia or emblem displayed on the face of the body that the hinge of the pin will be at the top and the safety catch usually employed be at the bottom of the pin. Heretofore, in many cases the chain has been secured to the pin by means of a ring soldered to the back of the pin adjacent the catch, while in other cases, the 30 securing ring has been attached, in one manner or another, to the hinge member, with the undesirable results that as ordinarily worn, the depending strand of the chain in such case will interfere more or less with manipulation of the 35 pin in securing it to the clothing and of course the chain has to be of greater length than when it is secured to the bottom part of the pin. My

present invention consists in so forming andmodifying the construction of the catch member of a pin otherwise of ordinary construction as to provide an integral ring member adapted for connection with the chain which shall be secure and convenient and more desirable from the 45 standpoint oi commercial production than any prior construction known to me, the essential elements of my invention being more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing,- 50 Figure 1 is a plan view of an integral body member from which my novel combined catch and connecting ring may readily be formed;

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same;

Fig. 3 is also an edge View with the side portions of the body member struck up on opposite 5 sides of a soldering base;

Fig. 4 is a side view of the completed catch, with the rotatable slotted locking member of the clutch in open position;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the body mem- 10 her, and the rotatable locking disk, the parts being separately shown, detached from each other; and

Fig. 6 is a rear view of a pin equipped with my novel catch and connection, shown upright, in the position in which it is designed to be worn.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawing.

The body member I of my novel catch is initially stamped to the shape shown in Fig. 1, with 20 convex recessed side portions 22 connected by an intermediate connecting portion 3 (the construction of these parts so formed, being wellknown in the art), and an integral ring section 4 connected with one of the side portions 2, the parts being then further stamped to assume the formation shown in Fig. 3, in which the intermediate portion forms a soldering base, ready for reception of the slotted rotatable locking member 5 of the catch, which is so formed as to be pivotally mounted in the recesses of the parts 22 of the body member, and is provided with operating spurs 6 by means of which it may be turned,see Figs. 4 and 5.

The side portions 2 of the completed catch are formed with slots a to receive the pointed pin member I of the article, which is hinged at the top of the pin body,see Fig. 6,and the ring section 4 is bent at approximately a right angle to the plane of the rotor member 5 of the catch, so as to stand away from the path of the spurs 6 of such member, and permit the rotor to be readily shifted into and out of locking position, and in position for attachment of the guard chain 8.

It will be understood that when the rotor is turned so that its slot registers with the slots (1 in the side portions of the body of the clutch, the pin member 1 may be inserted or withdrawn from the slots, and. that the rotor member 5 of the 7 catch may be turned by its operating spurs 6 to lock or release the pin member in the slots, all as well known in the art.

It is obvious from the explanation above given, that the simple and economical construction described permits the combined catch and connecting ring to be formed and soldered as a unit to the lower side of the pin body, with the ring standing in such position as not to interfere with manipulation of the catch and in the most desirable position for connection of the guard chain.

I claim: a 7

'An integralrcombined pin catch and connecting ring comprising a. bodyformed with a $01- dering base and a pair of slotted side members a and. a slotted rotor member pivotally supported 5' by said side members and. formed with projecting operating spurs, one of said side members being formed with a connecting ring extending outwardly from the path of movement of the spurs on said rotor member.

HERBERT C. VAN PELT. 

